Historians will have to scour our hard drives and newspaper clippings to scrape together enough information to piece together our collective fetishes. They will misinterpret our kinks through their jaded filters, grossly exaggerating our noble lusts into comical perversions that were impossible to achieve. And we will be all the poorer because they didn't focus on inventing time travel so they could tell us about their concocted ways we could be employing to sate our libidos.

LeaseWeb said it had been maintaining the servers at its own expense since Megaupload was shuttered in January 2012. After the servers sat inactive for a year, and with no requests to access them, it said it had informed Megaupload that it would delete them.

Seems pretty reasonable if this is accurate. Running hundreds of servers for a year costs a significantly non-zero amount of money. Can't expect them to foot your bill forever.

There have been so many cases where online storage has suddenly gone away for one reason or another. Anyone who still relies on a cloud storage for their only copy of anything even vaguely important is an idiot. Hard drives are so cheap these days, and its so easy to have an external USB hard drive as a backup, plus software that makes backups automatically.

Wait the government destroyed the evidence they planned on using to procecute a German citizen? Could it be that what they found was actually going to prove his case? Nah, that's just crazy talk, I'm sure it was just an accident, some intern made a mistake, rest assured they will take action to insure it doesn't happen again.

DivorceWar Veteran:Youngins'! Back in my day, I had to sneak my Dad's Playboy to see naked women! Now you have that fancy box with lights and it comes to you!?

/get off my lawn

Yeah back pre internet pron if you didnt have a playboy handy hair band videos that had the hot girl the lead singer was banging dancing around for 3&1/2 minutes was all you had. You needed to finish before they went back from the dancing hot chick to the band.

Of course I was a pro it was no problem to finish. Hell I could finish twice and take a nap in 3&1/2 minutes.

Kanabiis:Wait the government destroyed the evidence they planned on using to procecute a German citizen? Could it be that what they found was actually going to prove his case? Nah, that's just crazy talk, I'm sure it was just an accident, some intern made a mistake, rest assured they will take action to insure it doesn't happen again.

The US is prosecuting Dotcom. The servers belong to a Dutch firm. LeaseWeb claims nobody asked it to preserve the data. Doltcom's attorney and the EFF dispute that claim.

Amazon charges $0.095 per GB per month for the first TB of data stored on S3, their servers are damn near bulletproof, and you can easily configure it to stream HD-quality video files to a web page or a smartphone for only a little bit extra using Cloudfront. Unless you are doing something particularly nefarious, I don't know why you'd even consider anyone besides Amazon when you need to store a huge amount of data in the cloud for cheap.

Mad_Radhu:Amazon charges $0.095 per GB per month for the first TB of data stored on S3, their servers are damn near bulletproof, and you can easily configure it to stream HD-quality video files to a web page or a smartphone for only a little bit extra using Cloudfront. Unless you are doing something particularly nefarious, I don't know why you'd even consider anyone besides Amazon when you need to store a huge amount of data in the cloud for cheap.

That's still 570$ a year for a paltry 500GB. Just buy a few hard drives.

There have been so many cases where online storage has suddenly gone away for one reason or another. Anyone who still relies on a cloud storage for their only copy of anything even vaguely important is an idiot. Hard drives are so cheap these days, and its so easy to have an external USB hard drive as a backup, plus software that makes backups automatically.

Yeah that was kinda my point.

DivorceWar Veteran:Youngins'! Back in my day, I had to sneak my Dad's Playboy to see naked women! Now you have that fancy box with lights and it comes to you!?

You lucky bastard! All we had were sears catalogs and national Geographic.

There have been so many cases where online storage has suddenly gone away for one reason or another. Anyone who still relies on a cloud storage for their only copy of anything even vaguely important is an idiot. Hard drives are so cheap these days, and its so easy to have an external USB hard drive as a backup, plus software that makes backups automatically.

Exactly what I was thinking. If it can happen like this then any major cloud storage could follow. The big players are also vulnerable since they cannot be sure that illegal material is not stored on their systems.